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- Subject contains "Wakefield Rattan Company"
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Stout Building - Wakefield Rattan Company, circa 1866
Date:
ca. 1866
Description:
"The rattan industry was established by Cyrus Wakefield sometime in the 1830s or 1840s. In 1855, Cyrus Wakefield, a resident of the Town of South Reading, brought his growing enterprise to South…
Library: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library
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Rattan factory
Description:
"The rattan industry, brought to South Reading by Cyrus Wakefield, was more than just a manufacturing operation. It is the reason Wakefield is what it is today. Founded by Mr. Wakefield in 1856, the…[More]
Library: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library
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Kurrachee rugs, Wakefield Rattan Company, Arthur Dulong, driver, circa 1890s
Date:
ca. 1890 - 1899
Description:
"Although the Wakefield Rattan Company was best known for first manufacturing rattan into skirt reeds and baskets, and later into cane for chair seats, chairs, car seats, cradles, flower stands and a…[More]
Library: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library
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Wakefield Rattan Factory, Wakefield, Mass.
Date:
ca. 1906
Description:
Postcard shows the Heywood-Wakefield furniture factory complex on Water Street. The view is looking north, with Water Street visible in front of the factory buildings.
Library: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library
Collection:
Wakefield Postcards
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Man on top of rattan factory chimney
Creator:
Payro, J. (Joseph C.), 1862-1953
Date:
1900
Description:
Photograph taken in 1900 shows a man on top of the remains of the chimney of the Wakefield Rattan Company factory on Water Street. The approximately 180-foot chimney had been struck by lightning on…[More]
Library: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library
Collection:
Old Photographs of Wakefield
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